NASA has shared an astronaut’s heartbreaking reaction after he was forced to witness 9/11 250 miles above the Earth’s surface.
It’s been exactly 23 years since the tragic attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia, USA where 2,977 people died, both in the planes and on the ground, including those from emergency services.
It is the single most deadly terrorist attack in world history, as several thousands more were injured in the aftermath, but one man was left helpless and stranded, hundreds of kilometres in the sky.
American astronaut Frank Culbertson was onboard the International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts, an estimated 250 miles (400km) from the Earth’s surface, where he was forced to watch the tragedy unfold in front of his very eyes.
He witnessed the South Tower collapse from space, after he noticed a dark gust of smoke coming from New York City, in a video that is far more chilling than any footage caught on the ground.
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